 | The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 29, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics Henry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood—to earn his “badge of courage.” But his dreams of heroism and invulnerability are soon shattered when he flees the Confederate enemy during his baptism of fire and then witnesses the horrible death of a friend. Plunged unwillingly into the nightmare of war, Fleming survives by sheer luck and instinct. This edition of Stephen Crane’s poignant classic is supplemented by five of his acclaimed short s...
 |  | The Search for Saint Valeria
Release Date: August 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 0971278628 | ISBN-13: 978-0971278622Life is never dull in William Biersach's mythical city of Los Angeles. In The Search for Saint Valeria, the third entry in the series, cop-turned-priest Fr. John Baptist and his faithful sidekick, gardener and chronicler, Martin Feeney, are once again on the trail of the unusual and strange. Why is someone stealing discarded religious objects - relics, altars, chalices - from the city's antique shops? And why on earth would modern-day grave robbers want to steal the remains of a 4th century Saint from New Golgoth...
|  | Vampire Junkies
Publication Date: March 1994| ISBN-10: 0936071370 | ISBN-13: 978-0936071374Count Dracula escapes by the skin of his teeth from Romania, ends up in the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where the first drink of blood he finds is a junkie hooker.It's love at first bite, at least for Drac, Little Mary Sunshine has somewhat different ideas.Humor in a jugular vein.A down and dirty low budget movie adaptation is in the works. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Unincorporated Man (Sci Fi Essential Books)
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Series: Sci Fi Essential Books The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.Now the incredible has happened: a billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early twenty-first cen...
|  | Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in)
Release Date: September 2, 2008The acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee, coming to theaters Sept. 28.For more information, click here.Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.Watch the QuickTime movie trailer. ...
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|  | Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems 1980-2005
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|  | The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (New Americanists)
Publication Date: June 30, 1995| Series: New Americanists In The Errant Art of "Moby-Dick," one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Ame...
|  | When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life (Vintage)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Vintage A celebration of Montaigne, the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers. In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his château to brood on the deaths of his best friend, his father, his brother, and his firstborn child. But finding his mind agitated, rather than settled, by idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays—a series of reflections on life in all its profundity and triviality. And, gradually, over the course of hi...
|  | Dante's The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: November 20, 1964| ISBN-10: 0822003945 | ISBN-13: 978-0822003946This classic poem of 14th-century Italy is an allegory of a journey through the various levels of heaven and hell. In between, Dante describes Purgatory (Purgatorio). It is the first great poetic work written in Italian. ...
|  | Reading Games: An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec
Release Date: August 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1564784738 | ISBN-13: 978-1564784735| Edition: 1st In Reading Games, Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja guides us through an entertaining and instructive exploration of a neglected genre of post-modernism, the Play-Text. Pioneered by authors such as Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec, Bohman-Kalaja's book provides a fresh interpretive approach to understanding the Play-Text. Providing insightful analysis of the game and play theories, and drawing from a wide range of ideas--from the thinking of the great philosophers to basic chess and poker strat...
|  | Dreams, Visions and Realities: An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers (Late Victorian & Early Modernist Women Writer)
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|  | Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (Florida James Joyce)
Publication Date: January 3, 2010| Series: Florida James Joyce "For everyone interested in Joyce and medicine--and everyone who reads Joyce should be--Vike Plock's Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity is an excellent place to start. The scholarship is deep and sound, the commentary on Joyce often illuminating, the whole production eminently readable. Those interested in the scientific climate of modernism in general will also find much to learn from."--John Gordon, Connecticut College "An informative, useful, and often delightful study of the intersections of contemporary medic...
| | The Perilous Cemetery (L'Atre perilleux) (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
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|  | Blue Plate Special (Sunny Childs Mysteries)
Release Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Sunny Childs Mysteries "Sunny Childs is...a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am great read."(J. A. Jance)It's up to Atlanta P.I. Sunny Childs to investigate what looks like a clean-cut case of murder in a closed-for-business diner-before time runs out. ...
|  | Home in Ithaca: A novel of Ancient Greece and Troy
Publication Date: February 3, 2004Whether the Trojan War was real or a myth, Homer's great poems, Iliad and Odyssey have enchanted readers for over 2700 years.Home in Ithaca provides a new view of Odysseus' family during his long absence. His son grows up to be a warrior and his beloved Queen has to use skill, courage, and cunning equal to her husband's to survive the dangers she faces at home. ...
|  | Ride It BMX (Sports Starters)
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|  | Kobe Bryant: NBA Champion (Playmakers)
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|  | When I Go Camping With Grandma - Pbk
Publication Date: October 15, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A young girl goes camping with her grandmother and, whetherpaddling a kayak or setting up camp, experiences the wonders of natureand of love. By the author of On My Honor.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Trouble on the Voyage
Release Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up There are many fascinating stories hidden in the nooks and crannies between history s main events, and the strange and dangerous journey of the Henrietta Maria is one of them. As retold in Trouble on the Voyage through the eyes of eleven-year-old ship s boy Jeremy, this story is both history and fiction. The merchant ship, Henrietta Maria, has been trapped in the ice of Hudson Strait for two months. It is August 6, 1631 when she finally breaks out and continues the search for a northwest passage to China. Captain Ja...
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